By Danielle Lobito
The adviser had asked the public who have questions for the President to respond by sending their questions via Twitter to @mediachatng1.
—Daily Post
President Goodluck Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan 'will' hold a media chat tomorrow at 7pm on ‘Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Voice of Nigeria (VON)’. You can watch the media chat live via the Internet on Channels TV at http://www.channelstv.com/home/live/ Below are 10 questions that people can ask the President:
- 1. When will there be 24hrs uninterrupted electrical power supply in Nigeria?
2. When will most people have access to constant supply of clean pipe borne water?
3. When will the Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing & Urban Development build affordable homes for the masses?
4. Are you contesting the 2015 Presidential election?
5. What are your plans for Nigeria before 2015?
6. Why have you refused to sack the Minister of Petroleum Resources?
7. Who did Professor Wole Soyinka refer to as 'Madam Shepopotamus'?
8. You are from the Niger Delta, why have you not stopped gas flaring and constant oil spillage in the region?
9. When will you, your wife and cronies leave Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi alone?
10. What do you think of the new PDP since you dismantled the Nigeria Governors' Forum?
*It must be emphasised that a TV political programme presenter recently asked a Professor question 7 on a satellite TV station. The Professor was not Wole Soyinka.
LAGOS — TWO months after the controversial deportation of Igbo residents, Governor Babatunde Fashola, Thursday, rendered an unreserved apology to the Igbos over the July 24 dumping of some alleged destitute in Onitsha, Anambra State by his administration, saying, “the action of our government was misunderstood.”
—Vanguard
Governor Fashola and Lagos State Government should not listen to Femi Fani Kayode (FFK) who said that Fashola should not have tendered such an apology to Igbo people. FFK claims that he does not hate Igbo people yet he prefers to cry more than the 'bereaved'. It would be honourable for FFK to stop attacking Igbo people since the person he was supporting has apologized but nay!
It is up to Fashola’s political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), to tell FFK to stop causing disaffection between Igbo and Yoruba people because his continuous offensive comments on the Igbo could lead to less Igbo votes for APC in 2015 although the South-East APC has also tendered an apology on the issue. Some voters may wrongly assume that FFK was speaking for APC as a member since he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party. It may even be politically unhealthy for APC to welcome FFK's further comments on Igbo people at this juncture.
Worldwide, the masses prefer to move to cities for better livelihood and higher salary. A section of Fashola’s statement more or less challenged the Igbo to build their cities instead of helping to build other parts of Nigeria economically. Since the Federal Government has shown no interest in Igbo skills and entrepreneurship, Igbo governors should build Igbo-made factories, train unemployed youth and start competing with India and China on mechanical and electrical products of yore. It would be a good opportunity to explore solar products. This is the time to revamp the Igbo-made industry in Nigeria. Igbo speaking states may improve like Ghana where some Nigerians trooped to after the Nigerian immigration authorities deported a lot of Ghanaians several years ago. May Yoruba people not end up trooping to Igbo states for employment opportunities like the Igbo proverb, ‘Tomorrow is pregnant, no one knows what it will give birth to'. We hope it gives 'birth' to Igbo-made factories as we have always 'preached'. Apart from the Igbo-made industry, we started to 'promote' our proposed 'rice revolution' in Nigeria since 2008.
Rebutting Fani-Kayode’s anti-Igbo slander
Fashola apologises to Igbo over ‘deportation’
Deportation: S'East APC Begs Igbo to Forgive Fashola
Femi Fani-Kayode: Governor Fashola and his ‘apology’
Femi Fani-Kayode’s nationality question and his views on the Igbo race
Lagos deportation: Fashola was wrong to apologize to Igbos, says Fani-Kayode
Tribute to Kenya Terror Attack Victims
Late Poet: Professor Kofi Awoonor courtesy Pbs.org
Slain during the terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, Kofi Awoonor – one of the leading lights of African literature and Ghanaian-born poet –is sorely missed by the continent’s literati. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports
—ThisDay
Terrorists ripped off noses, gouged out eyes of hostages in horrifying Kenya mall attack
Kenya Westgate mall hostage standoff continues; death toll hits 68
Kenya Terror Attack: 'Most Hostages Rescued'
Terror attack: I was not in Kenya, Soyinka
